Lee v. . Ledbetter’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently April 2020 · most notably Curl by and Through Curl v. Key (1984), Estate of Loftin v. Loftin (1974)
1 federal appellate · 28 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Undue influence is defined as 'the exercise of an improper influence over the mind and will of another to such an extent that his professed act is not that of a free agent, but in reality is the act of the third person who procured the result.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sherman v. Hicks
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.